Word: order
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commission had set out last January to examine two questions: 1) Had the supreme court, as charged in the press, delayed the release of four politically sensitive decisions until after Election Day, 1978, in order to boost Chief Justice Rose Bird's chances for confirmation by the voters? and 2) Had any of the justices or members of their staffs leaked word of such a ploy to the Los Angeles Times, which printed the story on Election...
Bird herself had called for the investigation last Nov. 24. A liberal 43-year-old activist with no prior judicial experience, she had been opposed by law-and-order conservatives and some of the legal establishment ever since her surprise appointment in 1977 by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. By last November, under the pressure of allegations of political maneuvering by the court, she decided that something had to be done to restore confidence in the state's highest tribunal...
...habits even left him free to perform a good deed; he married Thomas Mann's daughter Erika in order to get her out of Nazi Germany and safely under the protection of British citizenship. Auden later enlisted E.M. Forster in a campaign to persuade other homosexuals to perform such rescues...
...image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love...
...sacrificed everything, it seems, in order to take one last shot at a long-held dream: winning a place on the U.S. Olympic team as a marathoner. This is material for a comedy of obsession, the story of a man possessed by a mad and inexplicable passion...